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You don't need to use a separate provider to address the problem here, where using a separate provider may not address the problem at all: > "We're fully redundant across AZs, regi…

> Amazon is AWS's biggest customer, but I've never been told to compress things with zstd while working at AWS. You may have switched transparently to using it (e.g. for your appli…

> At Shopify, we had some serious issues at the time (~2014) with either LMDB or the Go driver that we couldn't resolve after several months Is there an issue/bug for this somewher…

The article says: > Why? All the crash test dummies are male. Even the “female” dummies the government requires in tests are just smaller versions of male dummies. Wait, so are the…

You said: > it's all very well to say "expect to lose an AZ" but during this outage it's not been physically possible to remove the broken AZ instances from multi-AZ services becau…

> Is there another level of patches below point releases for backported security patches No, because its unecessary (in my experience) > or are your options to upgrade to something…

MySQL GA dates: 5.5 3 December 2010 5.6 5 February 2013 5.7 21 October 2015 8.0 19 April 2018 The average seems to be about 2.5 years between minor releases, so this doesn't seem u…

> Nobody expects defaults to change between patch/minor versions. Can you provide an example of an application-side (IOW, not a DB-infrastructure-type variable) that has changed it…

> replication options like multi-source MySQL 5.7 supports multi-source replication: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/replication-channels... > spider for sharding and galer…